Lartigue

   Maurice Lartigue's biplane glider was mentioned briefly in the pre-War aeronautical reviews: it was a simple design even for 1912, with rectangular wings and a biplane forward elevator cell. His younger brother Jacques-Henri became a famous photographer and painter, and took many photographs of the happy life of the somewhat eccentric Lartigue family, showing rubber-powered models and a good many elementary gliders built under Maurice's direction and tested on the sloping hillsides of their estate at Rouzas, in the Auvergne. Little success but much enjoyment! The designs were monoplanes or biplanes, made with rough wooden frames and covered with bedsheets: they seem all to have been christened with Maurice's nickname, Zyx.